Editor’s Note

ARTICLES

ROSZKOWSKA-MUTSCHLER, HANNA: “…and on its site I sowed cress…” Some Remarks on the Execration of Defeated Enemy Cities by the Hittite Kings (1–12)

CROWTHER, CHARLES: The Decline of Greek Democracy? (13–48)

LI, PING: Was heißt es, der Natur zu folgen? Reflexionen über die Ethiklehre von Seneca und Konfuzius bzw. Menzius (49–66)

PASCAL, PAUL: A Medieval Poet and His Society (67–76)

UKOLOVA, VICTORIA: Three Defeats or The Happy Life of Flavius Cassiodorus (77–108)

CAPOGROSSI-COLOGNESI, LUIGI: R. von Jhering and the First Volume of the Geist des römischen Rechts (109–120)

MILITAREV, ALEXANDER / SHNIRELMAN, VICTOR: The Problem of a Proto-Afrasian Homeland and Culture (An Essay in Linguo-Archaeological Reconstruction) (121–130)

BAYUN, LILIA: A Phrygian Word in Hieroglyphic Luwian (131–140)

REPORTS

VASSILEVA, MAYA: The Sixth International Congress of Thracology (141)

VASSILEVA, MAYA: The Second International Symposium for Thracian Studies (142)

GONG, XIUHUA: The 1992 Meeting of the Chinese Society of Ancient and Medieval World History (143–144)

M.A. and Ph.D. Dissertations, 1988–1992, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, Northeast Normal University, Changchun (145–147)